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Despite the popular notion that painting is somehow dead, painter Agni Zotis dispels that errant belief by painting daily inside her lower East-side Manhattan art gallery which is viewable to the public. Dealing with issues such as consciousness and the four dimensions, Agni empowers herself and the viewer with a combination of raw and discreet use of color, line, texture and metals in her paintings. It is a process that is both self empowering and transparent since anyone can view her in the act of painting just by standing outside on the street and looking into her gallery. Her gallery displays her personal, relevant and spiritually compelling work and showcases both local artist and international artist with various shows. Enhancing an awareness of self through painting, Agni incorporates an eclectic mix of Greek philosophy and eastern philosophy in her art that defies categories and shatters any wall that a specific ideology might enforce. Although there is no official constitution of visual beauty, everyone has given their own opinion on it like the Greeks of ancient years or modern day advertising through slick printed pieces or video. Some of the aforementioned consistently and gainfully distracts from the core of what beauty is or can be. Fragility, femininity and birth are issues in Dianne Bowen's work. Dianne Bowen bravely heightens awareness of beauty that has been both forgotten or simply overlooked by her visual exploration of energetic form coupled with her use of imagery and objects that challenges the usual concepts of beauty./ Barbara Monoian's art offers subtle social commentary by means of sculpture with deer skin. The deer, at least in America, often symbolises the hunted, and dominance by those who hunt: men whose sole purpose in hunting is the joy of capture and the celebration of dominance which acutely evokes current political affairs and concerns that unfortunately span across the entire globe. The artist..'s process while working involves her allowing each deer skin to dictate the final form and shape which denotes a profound respect to skin and it..'s inherent purpose - protection. Recently, some of her pieces using deer skin have even been tattooed by fellow LES artist Mor Erlich who is also featured in this exhibition For several years now, artist Nikki Johnson has pursued a path of documenting the improbable by freezing time, space and aspects of the self at it..'s weakest juncture: photographing various wounds and scars on individuals who take pleasure in the mutilation on their bodies. Nikki calmly states, .."My work has always been about presenting a moment, no matter how disruptive or discomforting, as an opportunity for the viewer to participate in an event..." Mor Erlich, just as the other artists in this publication, is based in New York City..'s Lower East Side. She appropriates found images from the Internet and in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp but not tied to his school of thought, selectively repurposes them to offer playful yet serious commentary on international affairs by means of a moving, digital collage that simultaneously harness and question the accessibility of millions of images openly available to the general public.